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BMW Motorrad Develops C1-E Electric Study as Contribution to eSUM

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BMW Motorrad concept C1-E. BMW Motorrad has developed an electric study vehicle, the C1-E, as a contribution to the European safety project eSUM. This study unit is based on the concept of the BMW C1, and is characterized by a very high level of active and passive safety. Click to enlarge.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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But these added just one color to a black-and-white screen—red or yellow—and that wasn’t anybody’s idea of a full-color display. We began shipping to customers soon after, and you can now see the technology in products like the Hisense A5C, the iFlytek Book C1 , and the PocketBook Color, all of which were launched in 2020.

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GM provides technical details of the Gen 2 Voltec propulsion system used in the 2016 Volt

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Clutches are OWC1, C1 and B1. Schematic lever diagram showing the gearing of each of the two propulsion motor-generators to a common main transmission shaft using an individual planetary gear set. Click to enlarge. A key decision was to split EV propulsion between two motor-generators (motors A and B).

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